Plan your perfect Sri Lankan wildlife adventure by discovering which national park suits your animal-watching dreams.

Key differences between Yala and Udawalawe safaris reveal which park maximizes your wildlife encounters depending on your priorities.

This morning, having been re-reading and thinking extensively about Moore, Samuel, ‘A Genealogy of Open Access: Negotiations between Openness and Access to Research’, Revue Française Des Sciences de l’information et de La Communication, no. 11 (2017), https://doi.org/10.4000/rfsic.3220 but also the awful news in Tim Sherratt, ‘Update on Trove Data Access and My Suspended API Keys’, Tim Sherratt – Sharing Recent Updates and Work-in-Progress, 2025

At the recent SciCodes Symposium, I brought up the question of reviewing research software during the panel discussion. One panelist then raised the question of why we should review research software. I found this question surprising at first, but I do agree that it deserves an answer. Here is mine.

Imperfect World

Prácticas de exclusión durante la revolución rioplatense (1810-1820) por Marcela Viviana Tejerina La filósofa Chantal Mouffe entiende que, dentro de un campo de identificaciones colectivas, siempre ocurren actos de poder que dan lugar a un nosotros, delimitando un ellos que, de ser considerados diferentes, pueden aparecer negando nuestra identidad o cuestionando nuestra existencia y, de […]

„Creative Commons Public License (CCPL). Kommentar und Handbuch für die Rechtspraxis“ – so heißt die die erste juristische Kommentierung des Lizenztextes der Creative Commons-Lizenzen. Auf gut 500 Seiten bietet der frisch erschienene „CC-Kommentar“ eine umfassende Analyse der rechtlichen Grundlagen und Implikationen der etablierten CC-Lizenzen.

🔗Why did I create eDNAjoint? Environmental DNA (eDNA) - the genetic material left by organisms in their environment - is increasingly used as an efficient and cost-effective method in surveys of species distribution and abundance. This emerging data type presents new opportunities and new challenges, particularly around interpretation and fear of false positive detections.

Continuando con la entrada anterior, en esta entrada explicaré el funcionamiento de la última opción del botón «Pre-edit» del modo colación de ChrysoCollate.

TL; DR: Underworld is now Singularity-enabled, making it easier and somewhat quicker to use compared to traditional HPC installs. We demonstrate results using over 10,000 CPUs and more than one billion unknowns for solving the Stokes equation with Underworld 2.16

This is our dog Eleanor. She’s a Great Pyrenees/German Shepherd mix, just over one year old. We rescued her last September — some heartless jerkbag had dumped her out out of a moving vehicle in a random neighborhood. Fortunately she was unhurt, but she needed a home, and here we are.